321 Plays for Trans Futures

About:

321 Plays for Trans Futures is an all-day performance art show honoring the work of trans, non-binary, gender-nonconforming, & ally artists. It will take place all day on November 20, 2025 at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, IL. This project is funded by a MAP Fund grant.

Our Instagram is @playsfortransfutures

For more information, go to https://bit.ly/playsfortransfutures

Tickets:

321 Plays for Trans Futures is split up into thematic movements, each containing a variety of different works. Please purchase the ticket for the movement(s) that you would like to see. You can purchase multiple tickets to see multiple movements. Movement III and IV are combined into one showtime. All ticket income will go to Trans Lifeline.

If you would like to see more than one movement, you will receive a code for $5 tickets to the additional movements after your first ticket purchase.

Below are the works featured throughout the day along with the approximate showtimes:

11:00AM - MOVEMENT I:

Growing by Morris McLennan*

Trans(formation) by Mark Rosati

I See You, Queer Midwest Cryptids by B.T. Roen

All I Have Left by Cami Stuckert

And They Were Roommates… by Dawn Heilung

Cowboy Russian Nesting Doll by Sam Springhorn

[untitled] by Liv Garcia

Still Crossing by Liv Garcia

The Glass Closet by Mari Fluegeman

SON OF APOLLO by Tristan B Willis

material culture by Sloane Cutflower Allen

Choosing Sides by John Mabey

Whale Song by Daphne Gussler

BODIES ON THE BEACH by Nick Maynard

A Haunting by Sloane Cutflower Allen

SPELLBOUND by Corvyn Appleby

Ghosts by Eliot Colin

WORDS TO THAT EFFECT by F. J. Hartland*

sylvia, beginning to end and onward by Emilia Harrison Daniel

TRANSPLANT by Gordon Blitz

The Character Development Haircut by Michael Joseph Tharnish Roby

It’s Your Own Asphalt by David Lipschutz

"WORDS TO THAT EFFECT by F. J. Hartland

Mom Song by Abbie Goldberg

1:30PM - MOVEMENT II:

The Night Workers by Morris McLennan

Beautiful Issues by Mason Pilevsky*

Rats are Racist by James Perry

I Am No Man by B.T. Roen

ENCOUNTERS by Sam Springhorn

DINING OUT QUEER IN RURAL MIDWEST by AC Wilcoxen

Appsolutely Love by Chris Hutchings*

Excerpts from When You’re Good to Mama (Earth): Reciprocity and Decolonizing the Climate by Hannah Weisz

From “A Waking at the Motley” by Chris Smith

SHORT SESSION by Zee Bendici*

For Rural DJs by Morris McLennan

With Light by Maxine Rasmussen

Brink by Phillip Merrick

hearth by Julia Toney

Home by Ivy McPherson

Roots of a Home by Maddy Shilts

CHIMES AND CHANCES BY OLIVIA ARIETI

FaceTime by MC Crosby

Charlotte Always Thomas J. Misuraca

Rotten Tools by Florence Wilder

In Times of Crisis by Joe Quattro & Marjorie Conn

4:30 PM - MOVEMENTS III & IV:

Spooky Season by Hannah Weisz

One Two One Three by Mathew Green*

Chimera by Daphne Gussler

Funeral On Repeat by Florence Wilder*

Morning in Mourning at 25 by Amaris J. Gagnon

321 Plays by Morris McLennan

Tranny Limbo by D.A. Mindell*

Astray by Judit Hollos

RITUAL FOR AN ACHE by Max Raymond

Words for Dad by Morris & Gordon McLennan

Remembrance Day

Wanna Break From the Ads? by Freddie Thomas

Intake by Cami Stuckert

My Body is Not a Temple by Rylee Short

The Importance of Representation by Aqdas Aftab

“Durable” from Rare Wolves by Gaby Labotka

Stop All The Gaycism by Katie Casebolt

Red Eye by Morris McLennan

Being Non-Binary is Like Being a Cosmic Body by B.T. Roen

Author by Morris McLennan

Pumpkin Z Latte by Glory Kadigan

TIM MINUS THE M by Louis DeVaughn Nelson

Something to Say by MC Crosby

Bodies by Adrian Speth

ZERO to 0 by chandra thomas

The Strand that Beads You by Allison Fradkin

Wanna Break From the Ads? by Freddie Thomas

Gibbous by Grayson May

7:30 PM - MOVEMENT V:

I Use Nonbinary by Tristan B Willis

WHEN THE SKY OPENS by Max Raymond*

Asparagus Interruptus by Robert L. Singer

GETTING A WEIGHT OFF MY CHEST by Maeson Linnert*

Right There by Elijah Benson*

The Island by Elaine Kuracina

Six Minutes by Purple (Quinn)

The House of Perceived Futures by Alex Kingsley

From “When the Sun Rises and the Walls Come Down” by Aaron Moore

Roads by Morris McLennan*

Excerpts from The Value of Labor in the Practice of Freedom by Hannah Weisz

INTERMISSION

What can you do? by Timis Tamas

Spiraling by Kyle Brown

October by Morris McLennan*

flesh of my flesh by emma skinner

Heading North by Roni Ragone

T4T by Sam Springhorn

Exit Interviews

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Host or Publisher Morris McLennan